#tempts

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. ↗

— Robert Greenleaf

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The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

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By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching. ↗

— Albert Maltz

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Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible. ↗

— Robin Morgan

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My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. ↗

— Walter Pater

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The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction. ↗

— William Shatner

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